IBM Rational plans to enhance its application testing tools with support for Visual Studio 2005, Tivoli, and SAP.
 
Offerings announced Tuesday are to be built on the open source Eclipse tools platform. "What we're doing is continuing to invest in our automated software quality solutions," said Jeff Schuster, product manager

Microsoft announced a version of its desktop-search software geared toward enterprise users. The offering is specifically tailored to users who need to search through data that resides on multiple computers across a company's network.
 
Other players, such as Google, already have a firm hold on the enterprise-search market with appliances

Wireless start-up Stoke Inc. has come out of stealth mode with its plans for an IP service delivery platform for converged fixed and mobile networks. The Mountain View, California based company also announced it has secured $20 million in Series B funding in an oversubscribed round, bringing the total funding for the company to

Intuit Inc. has introduced QuickBooks for Mac 2006, a new version of their small business accounting and financial management software application for Mac OS X. QuickBooks 2006 costs US$199.95.

With QuickBooks, Mac users can create estimates, invoices and purchase orders, pay bills, track inventory, track employee time and job costs — the

A group of Linux device and software vendors Monday launched a group aimed at fostering and speeding the adoption of Linux in mobile devices.

Among the founding members of the group, dubbed the Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum, are Palm OS vendor PalmSource, cellular operator France Telecom/Orange and Linux software vendor MontaVista

An ambitious new Google Inc. service lets anyone upload most anything to a publicly searchable database, potentially laying the groundwork for a foray by the Internet juggernaut into classified advertising.

The venture, Google Base, could lead to a vast expansion of its content and signal grander ambitions for the king of online

Instant-messaging threats are mutating at an alarming rate, as virus writers attempt to bypass security-system updates that corporations use for protection, a security vendor said Tuesday.

A record number of IM threat mutations have been recorded by IMlogic Inc., which has found that 88 percent of all worms tracked by its threat

Soaring oil prices and devastating natural disasters had no noticeable effect on the semiconductor market this year, but the engines for IC growth appear to be slowing down, according to the latest forecast from Gartner Inc.
 
Worldwide semiconductor revenue is forecast to reach $235 billion in 2005, a 6.9 percent increase

Enterprise spending on wireless LAN equipment surged nine percent in the third quarter of this year compared to the previous quarter, according to a study just released by Dell'Oro Group, a market research firm.

Total WLAN spending by enterprises was nearly $250 million for the quarter, the study noted. In particular, spending

The InfiniBand interconnect standard, first specified in 2000, is catching on in supercomputing as evidenced by several related announcements at this week’s Supercomputing 2005 trade show in Seattle. SGI unveiled Monday what it said is the industry’s first native server-to-storage InfiniBand solution while Isilon Systems said its clustered storage technology has been partnered with